Esoteric Lesson

GA 266b/1912-11-19/p005 ·1912-11-19 · English LowLow alignmentMost translators re-paragraphed Steiner substantially. The locus identifies the same chapter or section, but paragraph-N to paragraph-N mapping is loose. For exact-quotation precision, compare with the German.
Record: listeners' notes. Written from listeners' notes, summaries, or memory rather than a shorthand transcript. The wording is the note-taker's as much as Steiner's: weigh a single striking phrase here far more cautiously than the same phrase in a stenographic volume, and do not rest an argument on one word. Evidence: «Gedächtnisaufzeichnungen von Teilnehmern» (Participants' records written from memory). Rudolf Steiner Verlag Gesamtverzeichnis 2022, volume subtitle. The translation is the maintainer's, not a published one.

Without knowing it at first, one can experience something in such moments, which are most fruitful for development. One may have the feeling: now I have experienced something. It may seem like a dream. But experiences can also come to the esotericist in other ways. When we get up in the morning and go about our daily activities, it sometimes happens that we suddenly have the feeling: now I have experienced something. We should pay the greatest attention to these moments, because after a while another feeling will come: we feel that we did not think this thought ourselves. It was like a fleeting thought, immediately forgotten, but it was there, we experienced it. And such an experience is very important. We should focus our entire attention on it more and more. For in that moment, we did not think ourselves, it was not our ordinary ego that thought, but that which passes through all time and eternity as divine thought.

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